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“Resistance obstructs movement only from a lower sphere to a higher. It kicks in when we seek to pursue a calling in the arts, launch an innovative enterprise, or evolve to a high station morally, ethically, or spiritually.”
― The War of Art
― The War of Art
“We feed it [Resistance] with power by our fear of it. Master that fear and we conquer Resistance.”
― The War of Art
― The War of Art
“The cities, the roads, the countryside, the people I meet - they all begin to blur. I tell myself I am searching for something. But more and more, it feels like I am wandering, waiting for something to happen to me, something that will change everything, something that my whole life has been leading up to.”
― And the Mountains Echoed
― And the Mountains Echoed
“...she (the artist, the writer) doesn't wait for inspiration, she acts in the anticipation of its apparition.”
― The War of Art
― The War of Art
“To yield to Resistance deforms our spirit. It stunts us and makes us less than we are and were born to be.”
― The War of Art
― The War of Art
Existential Book Club
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This a book club for anybody interested in reading existentialist literature and fiction. Every month I'll be putting up a new text either by an exist ...more
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